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Monday, November 01, 2010

a blue giveaway

Happy November! Every month my family and I play this silly little game. We all try to be the first one to wish someone else a happy month. This morning I was greeted by my 7 year old (before I even got out of bed) with a "Happy November!" Not a bad way to start off the day.

November is my favorite month. I love fall. I love the Thanksgiving holiday. It's cooler so there are plenty of chances to wrap up in a quilt. It's a great time to make more quilts. (Well, it's always a good time to make more quilts, if you ask me.) I think November is good all around!

In honor of the first day of my favorite month, I'm going to give away a quilt kit to one reader. The quilt kit consists of 42 blue, black and grey kona cottons, so you can make your very own blue quilt. Or...you could use the pre-cut rectangles for various other projects if you so desire. Each rectangle is a generous 5.5" x 19.5" so the possibilities are endless! If you would like to win, please leave me a comment letting me know of any silly games you and your family play. If you don't have one, your favorite color would be a good substitute. Happy Monday to you!

908 comments:

Those blues would go great in the quilt I'm making my boyfriend! It's a simple stacked-coin design. Making quilts for men is challenging, I think.

Fun-family games: we love to play pictionary! Except it's hard to be on my mother's team because when she gets excited about how close you are to guessing correctly she pokes you with her pen to prod you along. We're probably the only family that gets injured playing pictionary.

I made up a game called, "Old White Honda", which is along the lines of Punchbug, except, you know, that you're looking for old, white Hondas (like my first car, a '91 civic.) It's not as easy to play anymore, and the kids in the car would also call it on other makes and models of car.

I love blues and solids! I would have to make something from my City Quilts book ... My husband play "Punch Buggy" ... I think I play it all the time, and he plays it occasionally because I've been winning for weeks! Thank you for the giveaway!!

What a great start for a quilt for one of my boys! So hard coming up with a good color scheme, and these would be perfect. Glad your day started off so well~ Nothing better than a cheerful 7 yo! Well, maybe a baby. . . or an adorable 2 year old. . . oh, they are all wonderful.

Beautiful blues!Our favorite family games are a card game called Rage and hiding in various corners, behind doors and closets just waiting for the opportunity to jump out and scare one another! The three-year-old thinks this is the best!

Happy November to you! My family consists of me and the dogs and the cats. So games of fetch and soccer rank higher then anything else around here. I don't know that that counts, so I'll say I'm sorta scared of blue and my favorite color is orange.

When I was young, every time we were on a long car ride and crossed a state line, we'd race to be the first one to say "Sure looks different" about the new state. I try to do that with my own family but they all argue with me.

That is so cute!In my Family we always wish each a happy holiday eve, such as Happy Halloween ever the night before and sometimes we get carried away and silly with birthdays, wishing each other Happy Birthday Eve Eve Eve...days before the actual birthday.

While my brother and I were growing up we didn't dress up and go trick or treating for Halloween. Instead we celebrated Reformation Day on Nov 1. As we've grown older it has become a contest to see who wishes it to the other first. The past few years he has been the one, but when I woke up this morning to no greeting I knew it was *my* year!

I love games and being silly. It gives you energy and keeps the mood light. I can't think of anything that I do on a regular basis, but the most important thing is that we always have fun. My favorite color changes from pink to red. always have been fond of black. I also enjoy light medium toned greens and blues. I would love to make a green and black quilt for myself someday.

We always used slip love notes under the boys bedroom doors, while they were sleeping. They would wake up and find them. Sometimes, it would be a clue to where a special treat would be hidden. Now they are all grown up but they fondly remember those notes!

The "game" that my family plays...not really a game, but we make up new lyrics to songs. Kinda like Weird Al...but less curly headed and 80s retro?! Even my four year old son gets in on it. His lyrics are better than mine most of the time.

nothing silly comes to mind - does that mean I am a bad mom??? or just braindead and coming down off the sugar? I, too, love FALL - although this month will start to feel rushed... LOVE the blues and was thinking of trying something like your blue quilt!

For now, it's just me and my husband, so there aren't many games yet. We do bust out in random dance moves to make each other crack up. My favorite color varies between red and blue. I would LOVE to win this!

Blue is my favourite color, ever since I knew colours. In all the quilts I make is at least one piece of blue somewhere! I would love to win this lovely set of blues.My family's best game is Trivial Pursuit with our own rules that change everytime we play it.

We have a game we play on long car rides- We are each assigned two colors and you get a point for any car in your colors that's for sale on the side of the road (car lots don't count). My hubby and I have been playing it since before we had kids and now we all play!

My Family and I start every month with three words "Lapin, lapin, lapin". It is the French word for rabbit. I am not sure how much truth is to the storey behind it but it is apparently good luck and will bring you wealth in the coming month. I have been doing this since I was a child, I learned it from my father, who learned it from his Grandmother, so I can only guess where it began. I find I am wealthy every day, not financially but with the gifts life gives me everyday, so I guess it works!Happy November to you and I wish you lapin, lapin, lapin!

Our game is not so much silly as crazy. After the kids have emptied their plastic Easter eggs, The EGG WARS begin. Daddy starts throwing eggs at the kids and they all throw them at him and I try to video and stay out of the line of fire. It is hilarious!

My children are long grown but I do play games with my cat. It's more like I jump at her and then she runs like crazy. We do that for about 10 minutes and then she takes a nap. (It must be very difficult being a cat!)

My family's silly game started out as one between my mom and her sister - they have differing opinions on how the toilet paper roll should be hung (Mom says forward, Aunt says back). Whenever they visit each other, they switch all the toilet paper around. It doesn't work when Mom comes to visit me, since we're on the same page, direction-wise, but my youngest sister and I carry on the tradition with each other ^_^

Great blue colors! I don't have a family of my own yet, but my roommate and I lived in Vienna where we both taught at an international Christian school. I still live there and teach at the school. Without her, it's hard to play this game, but we sure have fun playing it when we're together. Since neither of us is fluent in German, when we're standing on the U-Bahn platform and hear an announcement being made in German, one will turn to the other and ask, "What did they say?" The other makes up an announcement with a slightly silly twist and we both end up laughing. It helps deal with the stress of being an outsider in a foreign culture!

We love a game we call Tickle Monster--the tickle monster chases the kids around and, when he catches a kid, tosses them on the sofa but suddenly realizes he's forgotten how to tickle. We do all sorts of silly rubbing and poking until our son or daughter reminds us how to tickle again, at which point some fierce tickling ensues. The kids beg for it every night!

We, too, greet each month but are in the habit of having the words "Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits" be the first ones out of our mouths. My great aunt started it when we were kids--I gather it's a British tradition?

Back when the kids were younger & still at home, we'd make up silly limericks & would usually get stuck after the 1st 2 lines-I remember one that started "There once was a girl named Jane Fonda-She drove a little blue Honda". Never did finish that one!

Not really a game, but my kids love to be the first to wake up on Saturday mornings so they get the best spot to cuddle in our bed for Saturday morning cartoons. Being second is never fun 'cause by the time there are 4 of us in the bed it is no longer relaxing......

I don't have any kids of my own to play games with but I am a nanny to 3 wonderful kids. I love to sing songs and play hand clapping games with them.And just because, my favourite colour is green!Thanks for such a great giveaway!

Our family plays raise your hand. When we are being silly, someone will say "Raise your hand if you love hot dogs." And those who do raise their hand. Then someone else will say "Raise your hand if you wish you were a fish" We've been doing it for years.

the blue fabrics are a great choice for November.. as it's Diabetes Awareness Month, and blue is for diabetes!

my 9 year old son has type 1 diabetes, and one of the silly games we play, when he has to check his blood sugar (roughly 10 times a day!) is to try to guess what his blood sugar number is going to be... sometimes we base our guess on his mood, what he's eaten, how much exercise he's gotten, etc. whoever is closest to the actual number "wins", lol.

When we were young my sister would stick rice bubbles to her lips and chase us around the house saying, "I am the rice bubble monster". Hmm, strange but very entertaining. I would love to win the blue solids.

As a family we get silly with our daughter and play dog-pile on the rabbit. We yell "dog-pile-on-the- rabbit, then quickly pile on top of each other on the bed, of course she's always on the bottom & we pretend to "squish" her, but we really don't put any weight on her. After she's "flat as a pancake" she jumps up and yells "dog-pile on the rabbit & with all of her force and weight she jumps on top of mom and dad--- we moan and groan exclaiming we can't breath, help, help. We laugh, she giggles because she thinks she's super heavy and she's flattened us. All in fun and nobody ever gets hurt, it's just giggles and cuddle time!Brendabrendatexan@hotmail.com

Blue is my favorite colour and there is no such thing as 'too much fabric'.

When I have one of my nieces on the phone (now 9, 9 and 11), we always play 'who hangs up first'. We count to three and the first one who hangs up, is the winner. We have been doing this for years and they are not too old for it yet!

When the kids are off of school, I set aside a few mornings for "secret breakfast". Each of the older kids gets a morning where they (w/ some adult help) get to make a special breakfast and surprise everyone with what it is. It is TOP SECRET... so there is a lot of guessing and sneaking. It is a lot of fun to see what they want to cook.

When I was younger, my family used to play "if you love someone, hide their toothbrush". It went well until my brother hid my mom's toothbrush, bristles down, in the soil around a plant. I think we changed the game after that!

I'd love to make a blue quilt for my hubby - he LOVES the color blue. (It's very fitting as his name is a type of fish and he's in the Coast Guard!)

Pretty pretty blue strips!!Now remember, my two kids are older! One of my children asked for and recieved a "Slappy" doll for Christmas. Slappy is an evil ventriloquist doll from the Goosebumps books. Slappy is extremly creepy!!! We actually take turns hiding Slappy in places to scare each other. Places Slappy has shown up are: in your bed when you turn back the covers, in the passenger seat of your car when its dark outside, hanging from the closet and behind the shower curtain are some. Slappy has been known to peek in the windows at night while we think we are alone!!

I don't have my own family yet, but a few years ago, I had some folks over for Thanksgiving, but I was just supposed to provide the space, and some other folks were bringing the food. The game we played was "find a bottle opener" since I don't drink and lacked related accessories. We went door to door, but the only people home didn't speak English and gave us a can opener instead. We ended up drilling out the cork and straining the wine through paper towel. I do love blues and greys though, and have a really tough time finding grey!

This is really sad, but a funny little "game" we play came about when my 16 year old was about 6. She came home from school one day and told me what she learned at school from her friends... Goes a little something like this..."What'cha doin'?"reply is "Eatin' chocolate""Where'd you get it""My doggie droped it""Where'd he drop it""In the sewer""What'cha call it?""DOGGIE MANURE!"SO sad, I know... now our reply to each other to the question "What'cha doin'?" is always "Eatin' chocolate", but fortunately that is where we stop now that she is older!

My family and I play a version of the slugbug game which has evolved to include hitting each other when we see slugbugs, boats, RV's and vans that don't have any windows. The vans became involved when my Fiance and I would commute into school which was located in an area heavily populated by service vans (i.e. comcast, plumbers, those sorts of things).

I'd love to win these blues for my sons quilt!!Hmmm silly family games... My boy and I play the "I don't want a kiss, kisses are disgusting" game Wich obviously means we want a kiss but don't want to lose our street cred by asking for one ;-)

The blue quilt is just terrific!!! Thanks so much for the opportunity! We do movie lines....particularly at dinner. You can't steer the conversation to the line - just has to fit in whatever we're talking aobut. WE also wish each other Happy Birthday Eve, Happy Halloween Eve, etc.....thank again.....piece....

My family doesn't really have any silly "games" but my 1 year old thinks it's funny to flounce down on my or my husband's stomach, to which we always go "uuugghhhhh" which sends Hunter into major laughs and giggles! Then he does it again!

Happy November Amanda Jean! Can't think of anything silly, but we always did have a lot of fun when we traveled on the road. Singing songs, counting license tags, finding the "red" cars, counting stop signs. Anything to keep the traveling happy :) Thanks for the beautiful giveaway!

we play a game called "reindeer." my then-two-year-old daughter made it up last Christmas... you put your index finger up in the air and touch the other fingers to your thumb. then put all those fingertips on a table and they are a reindeer's legs. your index finger is the head. the reindeer eat, talk to each other, etc.

For the longest time, my husband had the most annoying ring on his cell phone. So my daughter and I decided to dance really weird each time his phone rang. It made the song bearable, but the game got old. I think he must have changed it, for we have not danced for a while!

I've taken a few years off during the throws of life with little ones, but finding your blog has inspired me to get back at it and I'm now machine quilting my first quilt in more than a handful of years - and one of your designs to boot! I just love your work!

As for silly family games...on long car rides we hold our breath under bridges. Out on the playground, the kids LOVE to play "hot lava monster" where we try to catch them, but we aren't allowed up on any playground equipment to get them.

I am just finding your blog today via That Girl.. That Quilt! I have looked around a bit and can't wait to read more! As for a silly family game, the Mr. and I are always playing "I love you more than...(fill in the blank)" The things we come up with always make us break out in giggles! Thank you for the chance to win those amazing blues! Happy November!

love this :)we dont play too many games.. my son (who is 3) and i just started a game...silly face game. we make silly faces at each other and the first to laugh looses. well if you tell my kid not to laugh its like pushing a laugh button on him and it's contagious!

My daughter has just discovered the punch bug game and she thinks its fun to punch you in the arm as hard as she can. (she's 9) I've gotten to where if I see a punch bug before she does I try to distract her from it by asking questions so I don't encourage the punishment and bruises all of us in the car receive :)

We used to play all kinds of silly games - one of my favourite was the chocolate game. You take it in turns to throw the dice. Whoever throws a 6 gets to put on hat, scarf and mittens, pick up a knife and fork, and start to eat a (wrapped up) chocolate bar. As soon as the next 6 gets thrown, the next person takes the hat, scarf and mittens and gets to work on the chocolate. You hope that you actually get to eat a piece before someone else throws a 6.

We often start a word by articulating one or two syllables and let the other finish the word - sort of "I can read your mind" game. My daughter loves it!Just in case that is not silly enough, my favourite colour nowadays is aubergine. Love to eat the plant as well.

Among my husband's (and my) colleagues the game is to be the first to say "white rabbit" to each other each new month. Not sure how it started but I white rabbited my husband this morning (ha- usually he gets me first). This also goes for e-mails so you can white rabbit someone via e-mail too (but you have to have an actual reason for sending the message).

Love the blues and grays - in a house full of males this would go over quite well!

What a generous, beautiful giveaway . . . I love the quilt you made from this fabric! Our favorite silly game is animal charades. You act out an animal withOUT making its noise and people guess what it is. And my favorite color is blue ;) Thanks for the chance.

It isn't really a game, but our family always says I love you when ever we talk to each other, on the phone or see them in person! Because you can never say I love you enough, to the people you love. And we are having our first baby in December and it is a boy, so this blue material would be great to make him a blue quilt!!!

we play "I love you more than...." at bedtime. so i'll say i love you more than say ice-cream to one of my boys and they'll reply i love you more than toothpaste/socks/puppies or whatever springs to mind, we always have a giggle before they snuggle under their quilts

One of my favorite teachers in high school played a similar game on the first of the month. If you were the first one to say "Happy Rabbit, Rabbit Day" you got all the luck for the month. Thanks for bringing back those fond memories! And I'd love blue so much!

as a kid we would play a card game called nertz. it's sort of like solitaire...but with multiple people. we all sat around a table or the floor and as you go through your deck, you put the aces in the center. you can start using anyone's aces to get rid of your suits and the first one to get rid of all their cards yells "NERTZ!". the other players get points for each card they have left and the goal is to have the least amount of points by the end of the night. it was fun and larger family gatherings and gets very crazy and fast the more people playing.

One day my husband, while playing with the kids, randomly said, "Boom goes the chicken!" All four of my children laughed so hard that it has now become a regular thing. (Note that all my little ones are under the age of 6.) So it's not really a game, but I don't think any other family will just shout out, "Boom goes the chicken!"

My daughter loves everthing blue and I mean EVERTHING. Not only would I like those fabrics I NEED those fabrics. I have been wanting to make her an all blue quilt for two years. Other things always seam to get in the way. So I will be hoping and praying that I win.

Our kids are all grown but my favorite color is blue...hope that counts. : ) Thank you for this generous giveaway opportunity!I enjoy your blog and your inspiration. I am glad you came back.Beverly in WA

My family does silly stuff, but I sure can't think of a funny game that we play. Oh, but when my brother was little and we'd get in a "fight" we'd call each other names that were funny not mean- like "you paper plate" or "you hot dog bun" the goal was to get the other person to laugh.Thanks for the great giveaway!spackattak7 at hotmail dot com

We have a travel game we call Garbage Truck Derby. We came up with this during our first 2-week roadtrip, when the boys were 3 and 6, and we needed something to make the long days easier. Basically, the first person to see a garbage truck yells "Garbage Truck!" and gets a point. Keeping track of the points is half the fun. Finding a garbage truck yard in the middle of rural Oregon guarantees you win the day. The prize? Bragging rights for sharp eyes.

When I was little my sister and I would play a game of who could wake up dad first. See my dad has gotten up at 4am every day since I can remember, work days, weekends, you name it he is up. However, on the all too important holidays (ie Christmas, Easter, Birthdays, First day of fair(b/c in our house fair is a holiday) he wouldn't be out of bed and nothing can start until dad was up, so we would try to get him up. Bragging rights to the winner!

Hi - wow what a great giveaway. Thank you. I guess our favourite game at the moment is peek a boo. This is because my niece is only one but loves it, we adults enjoy it too because she is so funny when she tries to hide before the boo! Many thanks. Ccarolinehemsley@btinternet.com

It started that my little girl was calling us stupid. When i told here that wasn't nice we decided that if you think someone is not so nice we call eachother something to eat.you are a pickel when you are not so nice and your a cupcake when you are sweet and so on.The educating thing is that she has to think things because you can't say something double.

Well, with a house full of teenagers, any misspoken word or silly mistake takes on a whole new meaning. They won't let you forget it, and never stop reminding you you of it. It's all in good fun and we get lots of laughs. My favorite color right now is green. I would love to make a blue quilt however. The colors looks so relaxing. Thanks for the chance.

Thanks for doing a giveaway! We don't have any games we play yet, since our only child is 17 months old, unless you consider chasing her around the room a game. =) She loves that. I love blues, greens and purple - can't decide which is my favorite.

oh, what a beautiful giveaway...so generous!I'd definitely make a quilt for the man in my life...similar to the beautiful quilt you made.Not quite as cute as your family game, but my family has an Easter "tradition": Easter egg throwing competition (with cooked eggs). The, whose eggs last the longest after several rounds of throwing, is the winner. :)

*grin* If we want to play games as a true family, my father will only play games involving dice. Two of our {or rather, his} favorites are "Fill or Bust" and "Farkle" {that name alone produces immature giggles from the peanut gallery -- particularly when someone busts out the "Spicy Farkle" version). My husband and I love to play Bananagrams ---- it's portable Scrabble on caffeine!

Happy November!! I would love these blues (which happens to be my favorite color). My family plays a games called Cranium. My favorite memory of playing this game is when we were all playing and my husband's team were creating with the clay and he dropped the ball of clay onto the table and his partner shouted TURTLE and he was right!! Talk about a LOL moment! :o)

growing up i shared a bunk bed with my little sister. she'd love it when she would be laying in bed with the covers all the way over her head. i'd come in the room with a big pretend yawn and wonder a loud where she was. i'd have to ignor the giggles from the covers and say nice and loud, "I guess I'll just lay down right here". then i'd proceed to lay right on top of her and smash her. then complain about how bumpy the bed was until laughing she'd poke her head out from the covers and beg me to do it all over again.

As for games: we like to play road games while we drive, kinda like bingo. We have a list of things to spot - silly things like "man in a red hat" and "polka dots" but whoever spots someone picking their nose wins on the spot! it's silly, keeps them occupied and talking and we have fun!

My favorite color is actually blue so I would definitely love, love, love to win. One game we play at our house, maybe not so silly, is high-low (got it from "The Story of Us" with Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer). We go around the table and each person says their high and low for the day (week, month, year). Kind of a nice way to find out what's going on with everyone (my kids 21, 24, 26, 27, and 30).

There's some fierce doodle jump competition going on in my house, oh my! even the 18month old knows how to make the little man go wheeee! I've decided that my favourite colour is yellow. Which really surprises me. But I LOVE IT! really I do.

Blue is one of my very favorite colors and I have always wanted to make a blue quilt. My kids are getting too old for it, but my husband and I love to play Mum in the car. Maybe you played it too. Its the game where kids are not allowed to make any sound for a specified amount of time decided by an adult. When they were little, my kids thought it was awesome and were quite competitive about it, but now that they are older, they are wiser. My teenaged son likes to play, "Who farted? Not me!"

What a lovely giveaway! I live alone and my son is grown so there are no games silly or otherwise at my house. When it comes to making quilts and buying fabric I like rich, clear, saturated colors. I like everything from black, to taupe, gray, yellow, red, lime green, turquoise and orange. It is hard for me to pick a favorite!

Off the top of my head I can't think of any little games that my family and I play, but I can sure say that BLUE is my favorite color. I always gravitate towards it in the fabric store. Thank you for the giveaway!

Blue has always been my favorite color. Not really a "game" but when our two sons were young, as we would travel from our home to visit our parents in Oklahoma, my husband and I would break out singing "Oklahoma" (very badly) as soon as we crossed the state line. The sons are now adults and still expect us to sing as we enter Oklahoma. Connie

My fiance and I don't have a family yet, but when I was a kid we had Cuddle Tickle time with my baby brother on my parent's big bed after dinner. We'd toss balloons, read books, 'swim' around on the sheets, and just have a good time until bedtime!

I have a game my 3yo. I ask him, "who does mamma love?" and he replies with a crazy made-up name. Then I ask him, and who does [insert crazy made-up name] love? And he replies with "[crazy made-up name]mamma." The trick is in repeating his crazy made up name back to him perfectly, which gets tricky when it is over a dozen syllables long!

Blue is my favorite color! Oh we have lot's of silly games... While traveling in the car we are always on the lookout for our favorite cars and the first one to see it and yell 'mine' gets it for the day! Usually a Audi TT or a Porsche it's been a great way to relate to my boys especially! Or we have to guess what each car is! Lot's of yelling, by the way did I say my favorite color is blue!

What gorgeous colors! My toddler son loves kiss attacks from Mom and Dad. "Look, it's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, it's a....kiss attack!" He always used to look surprised and upset as a little baby, and we said 'oh, he'll learn to love it.' And he has!

my husband and I don't have any silly games yet but I've always thought the one my mom and step-dad play is really cute. They try to be the first to tell the other that he/she is the love of her/his life. The winner brags here and there throughout the day. It's just their cute way of saying "I love you".

My mom and I play a game with a paper butterfly that winds up via a rubber band. We twist it up and then hide it somewhere that the other will find it... but maybe not for a while. It should always be an unexpected surprise. We try to position it so that when the other person opens something the twisted-up butterfly unwinds and "flutters." We've been doing this for years and continue to play it when we can even though we're on separate continents.

We've made bedtime fun at our house! When the kids are ready to head up to their beds we make it a race... Ready 1..2..3..go go go then we chase them and laugh and tickle when we reach them half-way up the stairs. It's not a calming game before bedtime, but both our our boys love it, and we don't have a problem getting them down. (Even our 17 month old gets in on the action with laughs and giggles!)

And, just for kicks, my favorite color is PURPLE!! Although, I'd LOVE to make a blue quilt to match my family room!

Right now my kids are really into "Last One to Wherever is a Rotten Egg!" At first it was a way for my husband to try to get them upstairs for bathtime, but now my son uses it every time we go up and down the steps. And it never gets old!

My brother and I play an INTENSE version of the license plate game. To the point where it's carried over into our friendships. I've even called each other for a second opinion on the rules when he and his wife were playing!

Love the blues, but fav color is purple. My children are young adults so our games have changed. One silly thing we do is whoever gets to a restaurant first hides behind the menu when the others arrive : ) Their dates think we are pretty crazy!

My husband is king of silly. He does all sorts of silly things with our 2-yr-old. The current favorite (other than potty jokes) is to change the words of familiar songs. She's getting pretty good at it, too.

My kids are still really small, but they love to do fake whispers. Even my one year old fake whispers in my ears to make me laugh. I love it. And my favorite color is Yellow! A good complimentary color to blue ;)

My family makes up our own songs- incessantly. Everything is an excuse to sing our own silly lyrics loudly and badly. My husband's improv comedy is to blame. My five year old tops us all with her extremely silly and extremely silly songs.

Love the colors! I'm currently teaching myself to sew and haven't tried a quilt yet but I'd LOVE to. So far, just some simple tote bags and a reusable sandwich bag.

Lately my kids and I have been playing "dance party". Once my boys (3 years old and a 14 month old) are in their pajamas for the night, my husband will put on a CD with some kids dance music and we all rock out! It's hysterical and it wears the kids out before bed.

What a lovely giveaway! Our family likes to play Chutes and Ladders, Go Fish, and Lava. Lava is generally played when I'm cleaning the couches and put the cushions on the floor. At that point I'm usually innundated with small yelling boys screaming "look out for the lava, hot! hot! hot!" as they jump from cushion to cushion. Who could resist jumping in on that game?

We don't particularly have any silly family games. We play ordinary games. :) My favorite color right night seems to be yellow! I wouldn't not have claimed it except that I seem to gravitate to all things yellow: clothes, shoes, fabric, you name it.Thanks for the great giveaway. I would love to make a blue quilt!